By empty (9/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan\'s pro-presidential party Otan (Fatherland) voted unanimously at its special congress in Almaty on Friday to nominate incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev to run for re-election, an Interfax correspondent reported. \"The half-a-million \"army\" of Otan and - I can say confidently - all Kazakh citizens support your decision to run in the presidential elections,\" party acting chairman Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov told the congress, which was attended by Nazarbayev himself. Zhumagulov said he is confident that there is no alternative to the country\'s incumbent president.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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